Abstract

BOLIVAR MOLANO, Vanessa Alejandra  and  MONTOYA GARAY, Jhon Williams. The Hydrological Large Technological System of the Functional Metropolitan Area of Bogotá: An analyze of the Water Governance. Cuad. Geogr. Rev. Colomb. Geogr. [online]. 2021, vol.30, n.2, pp.481-503.  Epub Aug 27, 2021. ISSN 0121-215X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcdg.v30n2.93586.

The Large Technological System (LTS) is a central concept in the epistemologies of Action-Network Theories (ANT), related with poststructuralist epistemologies, and an important tool for the analysis of territorial systems. In this paper, we will use the LTS concept to examine the hydrologic system of the Metropolitan Area of Bogotá, making emphasis on three aspects: the natural structure, the technological complex, and the normative framework. The goal was to explore the metropolitan geopolitics of water use in La Sabana de Bogotá and the particularities in the water governance, highlighting the incidence of municipalism and the interaction of a wide group of private, governmental, and civic actors. It was examined the physical infrastructure provided by the Empresa de Acueducto y Alcantarillado de Bogotá (EAB-ESP) that works as a quasi-monopoly actor in water management as well as their interaction with the highly autonomous municipalities. Other actors such as the real estate, floriculture, mining, and dairy activities was included in the analysis. The report gives special attention to the highly complex relationships between them and how they work in a complex and multiscale normative framework. The text concludes emphasizing the different challenges of water governance in a context of rapid metropolisation, complexing economic relations and climate and environmental change.

Highlights: research paper about the hydrological large technological system of the Metropolitan Area of Bogotá. We analyze the technical system in association with the multiscale legal framework that govern the production and distribution of water.

Keywords : actors; urban expansion; water governance; metropolisation; large technological system.

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